Lead DevSecOps Engineer - Central Government
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Role: Lead DevSecOps Engineer REF 92473
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Hybrid/Any Local Office - 2 or 3 days a week preferred on site
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Lead DevSecOps Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE LEAD DEVSECOPS ENGINEER
The Lead DevSecOps role is pivotal in achieving the digital transformation objectives of the client. This position is responsible for ensuring that security is built into every part of the development lifecycle, specifically ensuring that security tooling (native and non-native) is properly embedded into CI/CD CI/CD pipelines. The role holder will be part of transformation programmes including tech debt replacement and migration, embedding security to ensure seamless integration of new systems/ features and workflows.
The Lead DevSecOps role will be responsible for ensuring that the replacement systems are security compliant, adhering to standards such as Secure by Design and GovAssure, utilising a shift left mentality to fix problems before production. This is as part of highly complex legacy replacements involving approximately 90,000 users.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE LEAD DEVSECOPS ENGINEER
- Strong hands-on expertise in DevSecOps practices, particularly security automation in CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code pipelines.
- Deep understanding of modern DevOps tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions/ CircleCI, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker) with secure configurations.
- Experience implementing security controls in cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS or Azure) including IAM, network policies, and container security.
- Proven track record of using tools such as Snyk, Trivy, Checkov, OPA/Gatekeeper/ OWASP ZAP, or similar to enforce pipeline and platform security.
- Familiarity with compliance requirements (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks) and their implementation via code.
- Ability to lead and mentor teams on secure coding, threat modelling, and secure architecture patterns.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and security telemetry platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Loki, ELK, XDR/SIEM integrations).
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Disability Confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, the client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Armed Forces Covenant
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- Location:
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Salary:
- £125,000 - £150,000
- Category:
- Engineering